Kosmos

Culture, travel, fashion and culinary delights: the Kosmos pages of Lufthansa Magazin bring you interesting and useful tidbits from around the world

Feline therapy

Feeling stressed out? A visit to a cat café could help. Stroking a cat can have a calming effect, something that resourceful businesspeople in Asia have been exploiting for some time. The first cat café opened in Taiwan in 1998, and the trend continues. In Germany, cat cafés have opened in several cities, including Hamburg and Munich, allowing cat lovers to unwind by snuggling with a moggy. The cats in turn have their very own rest room. All very cat-friendly!

Palace of the windows

The Hawa Mahal in Jaipur, India, was built in 1799 for the sole purpose of allowing the ladies of the royal household to watch processions unobserved. Hence the 953 intricately screened windows in its facade.

Build your own kayak, row- or sailboat in only a week at the Great Lakes Boat Building School in the U.S. state of Michigan. Then set sail straight into the water sports arenas that are the Great Lakes on the doorstep.

It takes two…

The best place to see and learn to dance the tango is Buenos Aires, where the sensual dance was born and where the annual International Tango Festival and world championships take place (August 9 – 22).